Dungeons & Dragons redux

Its been over a month since the 'Godfather' of role playing games, E. Gary Gygax, passed away. Since then, I've seen him consistently satirized in a variety of pop-culture, nerdcore, and college newspaper sites and publications. For a guy that lived in relative obscurity for most of the past 10 years, he sure made a lasting impression. The breadth and depth of these "tributes" are truly clever and would have had him laughing 8 die fireballs. My favorites include:

• Picture and related caption from The Tech, MIT's school paper. The tribute is great, but the text of the caption is even better. First, the author used the word 'hackers' to describe the individuals that placed the die in the quad. I think they meant 'vandals', but that 'hackers' has become universal nomenclature for anyone subversive. Or I'm just old. Apparently he is also the inventor of 'THE Dungeons and Dragons' which makes him kind of creepy and possibly a lesser deity.
• This NY Times article. The article itself is ok, but the Visio diagram is genius. There are frighteningly accurate truths about me hidden in there.
• This masterpiece in Wired magazine. I can't decide which is funnier, the concept itself or the celebrities they selected. Rick Astley hasn't had this much run since he and Falco were bonus questions on You Don't Know Jack.

I'll leave you with this.